Fallsburg School Scene 2015

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SECTION F, JANUARY, 2015 • CALLICOON, NY

A look at activities in theFallsburg Central School District

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he faces tell it all. As part of anew website and Facebookpage for Fallsburg CentralSchool District, a scrolling

display of photos captures studentstapping industriously on comput-ers, singing from the stage and smil-ing into the camera with theirteachers.

The media project/slide show,entitled “The Faces of Fallsburg,”showcases the daily doings insideand outside classrooms, underlin-ing the great things happening inthe District.

“Fallsburg,” emphasizesSuperintendent of Schools Dr. Ivan

Katz, “has many faces – teacherswho work long and hard to supportour kids, kids who strive to exceland achieve great things for them-selves and their school, employeeswho come to work every day tomake a positive difference in thelives of our students.”

There are faces of parents andcommunity members, and success-ful Fallburg High School graduateswho have gone on to powerful pur-suits.

Last year, Fallsburg made unfortu-nate headlines when several inci-dences of drug use and salesimpacted the schools, a matter still

under police investigation. But the episodes have jumpstarted

some healthy new initiatives on thepart of the 1,500-student District.

REACHING OUT TO OTHERSThe new Superintendent’s

Community Advisory Council

(SCAC) brings together parents,community members and schooldistrict staff to meet regularly withDr. Katz. The group offers input intomatters affecting the school com-munity and also gains accurateinformation about the successesand challenges of the District.

In December, the group organizeda successful community forum thatenhanced awareness of drug abuseproblems and highlighted existingprevention programs. The SCAC willmeet early this month (January) toreview and discuss the forum’s feed-back and distribute the findings tothe school community.

In another initiative, Fallsburg haspartnered with Every PersonInfluences Children (EPIC) to draft astrategic family engagement plan.

EPIC is a national non-profit thatoffers services to parents, schoolsand communities.

School communitygalvanizes to work on

projects, problemsT

A school year of promise and accomplish-ment, with an engaged constituency ofparents and community members, hasSuperintendent of Schools Dr. Ivan Katzsmiling.

Like most school dis-tricts, “We have been chal-lenged in engaging par-ents in meaningful waysthat result in improvedstudent achievement,”said Dr. Katz. “Withincreasing expectationsfrom the New York StateEducation Department,we need to better engagewith our parents and armthem with strategies theycan use with their chil-dren at home.”

EPIC is now gatheringdata and working withstaff and community tocreate the blueprint foraction. EPIC will also train teachersand parents on the impact of fami-lies on student success in school.

MOVING INTO NEW PLACESThis school year opened with

three veteran teachers serving asinstructional coaches for their col-leagues. Kasey Conrow in theJunior-Senior High School and PeterDworetsky and Catrina Gladding inthe elementary school offer supportin aligning curricula with Common

Core LearningStandards and in thekey areas of teachingEnglish languagearts and math.

“The coach visitsclassrooms and pro-vides embeddedsupport (duringdaily classroomactivities and rou-tines) for teachers,”explained Katz.

I n s t r u c t i o n a lcoaches also helpimplement the new“response-to-inter-vention” framework,which insures that,

through early identification andsupport, students with learning andbehavior problems receive the helpthey need.

In other personnel matters, formerDistrict Technology Director JaneTinsley now serves as Director ofStaff Evaluation and Student Data,allowing for the hire of KeithEdwards as Director of Technology,who has focused on helping teach-ers use technology more in theirclassroom instruction.

PHYS ED ADVENTURES

Construction of Fallsburg’s newProject Adventure course – fundedby a federal Carol M. White PhysicalEducation Grant – got underwaythis summer and will see studentuse in warmer weather. The dynam-ic phys ed course uses cooperative-problem solving activities to buildteamwork, leadership and trust atthe same time as it challenges stu-dents physically.

Such opportunities abound atFallsburg Central School District.

“Fallsburg is defined,” the super-intendent said, “by the many won-derful things that happen in ourschool district throughout the yearin the name of educating our stu-dents and in providing them withthe best opportunities available.”

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Dr. Ivan KatzSuperintendent ofSchools |

Credits:All photographs and stories for this special

School Scene are by Sul livan CountyDemo crat Photo grapher/Reporter

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Fallsburg Central School District for all itscooperation in this project.

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he halls are alive with the soundof music.

On Fridays, students atBenjamin Cosor Elementary Schoolsing or play the instrumental versionof “The Star Spangled Banner” acrossthe public address system.

Sometimes, the school resoundswith a musical “flash mob” with, forexample, the whole third grade of 115kids meeting suddenly in the front cor-ridor to belt out a tune they’ve learned.

On regular days, Cosor students findthemselves humming a piece they’vestudied in music class as they maketheir way through the rest of their aca-demic day.

“With music, I feel I can be myself,”says sixth grader Madelin Moran. “Itsets my soul free.”

The teachers behind all this joy andgood will – music teachers Andrea

Henderson and Lauren Bernard – saythat for certain, the benefits of singingand of learning to play instruments aremany.

“Music teaches logic, workingtogether to achieve a goal, commit-ment, problem solving, creativity,” saidHenderson. “Math, science, history,you name it, music is there.”

In fact, students involved in musicand art tend to do better on state test-ing and on Regents exams as well, sheadded.

Bernard noted that recent studiescorroborate music-making’s fascinat-ing effect on the brain.

“Neuroscience is revealing that partsof the brain actually light up when youplay or sing – and that that doesn’thappen with anything else,” she said.

Musical training also helps developthe left side of the brain, which

processes language development, shesaid.

At Cosor, all 800 students studyGeneral Music. Henderson teacheskindergarten through fifth grade,imparting music basics like beats andrhythms and how to use your singingvoice instead of your talking voice.Students first learn to play recorders,and then guitars by the end of fifthgrade.

A Fallsburg teacher for 26 years,Henderson also instructs students inchorus, bell choir, and recorderensembles.

Bernard teaches fifth and sixth gradeband and piano skills, along with sixthgrade General Music. In the latter, stu-dents learn to compose basic rhythmsand to perform their compositions onclassroom instruments. She alsoteaches fifth and sixth grade band and

keyboarding.A music teacher in Fallsburg for eight

years, Bernard is thrilled to supervisethe District’s newest musical purchase

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Performing musician Lauren Bernard teach-es in new keyboard lab at Fallsburg’s CosorElementary, along with General Music andband.


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a modern digital piano lab with 16 stu-dent keyboards.

“The keyboards have an interfacesystem that allows interactionbetween students and teacher,” saidBernard. “I can also isolate one studentelectronically to help him or her with-

out the rest of the room hearing. I canbroadcast one or more students to therest through the headsets.”

Fallsburg is one of the few districtsthat provides use of its instrumentsfree of charge, opening doors to stu-dents who would not otherwise be

able to learn clarinet, alto saxophone,flute, tuba, trombone, trumpet andpercussion.

Groups like band and chorus are alsoopen to all versus the audition systemthat prevails elsewhere.

“We take bright kids, needy kids,challenging kids, and we work withthem to get them on the same playingfield,” Bernard said.

Some students find their true homein music class.

“There are students who can’t thriveelsewhere, whether it’s socially, aca-demically, behavior-wise,” saidHenderson. “They come here and dowell.”

And that often is not easy. In anensemble, for example, a student mustknow which note to come in on, howto play the note and know their placein the ensemble. And to do it all differ-ently the next second.

“I love watching the children grow,”said Henderson, who serves as organ-ist for a church in Claryville on week-ends.

Her co-worker Bernard is a perform-ing musician who has played clarinetand bassoon with the Pine BushCommunity Band and others for seven

years. She agrees there’s nothing liketeaching music.

“I love instilling the love of learningand of creativity that is so self-motivat-ing,” Bernard said, “and that goes forwhether a student becomes a profes-sional musician or a hobby musician.”

Gabrielle Pantel, Jamie Rein and Madelin Moran work on their flute playing during recess.

A veteran music educator, Andrea Hendersonhelps student Genesis Zelaya on recorder.

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Mobile technology on the move into

Fallsburg’s classroomsSome experts argue schools are

way behind in embracing thekind of technology that the big

world outside the classroom acceptsas second nature.

School districts like Fallsburgwould challenge that thinking.

Skype, “flipped” classrooms, hand-held tablets as teaching tools, wire-less in every classroom – it’s happen-ing there now.

“We are a Google school,” addsFallsburg’s Director of TechnologyKeith Edwards, explaining thatFallsburg’s relationship with Googlepermits a focus on curriculum and

technology integration through onesystem, with parents, students andstudents going to one place to getinformation.

Outreach to the communitybeyond the school walls is a must forEdwards. He’s designed the new dis-trict website and is aggressive inposting information on facebook andtwitter “so people can see how muchgood we do on a daily basis.”

Edwards has also created aFallsburg app to be downloaded ontablets or phones.

“We recognize that most Internettraffic is from mobile devices,” rather

Fallsburg Technology Director Keith Edwards consults with teacher Amanda Scully, who isexploring a ‘flipped classroom,’ whereby she videotapes a lesson, sends it out to her stu-dents at home, and then in class, works on the lesson.

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than at-home or at-work computers,he said.

Included are news feeds, theDistrict calendar, school lunchmenus, information on athletics, theBoard of Education and on schoolclosings. The student managementsystem can also be accessed via the

app.“We’re added text messaging to the

roster of new (outreach) initiatives,”he said.

Students in the two Fallsburgschools work on 250 GoogleChromebooks – light and inexpen-sive laptops – available on carts.

Chromebooks are designed for usewith most applications and dataresiding “in the cloud” rather than onthe computers themselves.

This month (January), the Districtwill introduce 50 Android tablets –Google’s version of the small, hand-held iPads by Apple – into the firstclassrooms.

“We’ll have one classroom in theelementary school and one in highschool Spanish with the tablets,” thetech director said.

In the case of both theChromebooks and the tablets, “we’vechosen devices that are easy to useand manage,” he added.

The nearly one-on-one availabilityof electronic devices sets a new stan-dard for the schools.

“My vision,” said Edwards, “is thatwe will have work stations in everyclassroom utilizing the tablets.”

The tablets all possess apps to meetcurriculum needs. Math in first grade

offers access to addition and subtrac-tion applications; in EnglishLanguage Arts, applications allowsstudents to focus on word problemsand to create storybooks with anima-tion, graphs and writing.

Teachers can distribute assign-ments electronically, and studentscan complete the assignment andsend it back for feedback and gradingfrom the teacher.

In classrooms like Amanda Scully’s,the “flipped classroom” allows theteacher’s direct teaching to becomehomework via electronics. Scullyrecords a video of herself teaching ascience lesson, and the video isaccessible to her students at homethrough the District’s GoogleClassroom system. Then, in the class-room the next day, Scully delves intothe work and teaches with smallgroups.

A much different world from that ofonly a few years ago, agrees Edwards.

“It wasn’t that long ago that the onlyway kids could access informationwas by going to a computer lab orbeing clustered in a corner of theclassroom,” he noted. “WithChromebooks and tablets, all youneed is wifi, and we’ve got it goinginto every classroom.”

High School student Oscar Beltren takes atest on a classroom computer, while newmobile electronics make their way intoteaching and learning in the District.


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